It must have been the Kline book on Woody I read; I recallthat Marjorie divorced Woody not because she didn't love him and want him around, but because with his behavior disturbances, he was a menace to the children.That he went on to have another child, knowing he had a genetic disability was the height of irresponsibility (for both of them).
Woody was a young man when he abandoned his wife and FOUR children in the Dust Bowl. He had no symptoms, and his mother dies in an asylum before Huntington's chorea was identified. I have never heard anyone defend that.
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